Just in time for Tax Filing Season – IRS Updates List of Private Delivery Services & Adds DHL To The List!

Just in time for Tax Filing Season – IRS Updates List of Private Delivery Services & Adds DHL To The List!

April 15, 2016

Just in time for Tax Filing Season, the IRS has updated its list of designated private delivery services (“designated PDSs”), for purposes of the timely mailing treated as timely filing/paying rule, by adding eight new DHL Express services. Private Delivery Services PDS. These private delivery services include only the following:

DHL Express, FedEx and UPS are not designated with respect to any type of delivery service not enumerated in this list. The fact that a delivery service is provided by DHL Express, FedEx or UPS does not, by itself, mean that the service is designated for purposes of the timely mailing treated as timely filing/paying rule of Code Sec. 7502.

This list of designated PDSs will remain in effect until further notice. IRS will publish a subsequent notice setting forth a new list only if a designated PDS is added to, or removed from, the current list, or if there is a change to the application and/or appeal procedures.

Effect on other documents. Notice 2015-38 and its predecessor Notices containing lists of designated PDSs, are superseded.